On a theorem of Ledermann and Neumann

2019/09/29 by Sambale, Benjamin
#FOS: Mathematics #Group Theory (math.GR)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1909.13220

Abstract

We give a short and self-contained proof of a theorem of Ledermann and Neumann stating that there are only finitely many finite groups with a given number of automorphisms. We also discuss the history of related conjectures.

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